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1 preprint version of paper scheduled to appear in Comparative and Functional Genomics, 6 (2005) On carcinomas and other pathological entities Barry Smith, 1,2,3* Anand Kumar, 1 Werner Ceusters 3 and Cornelius Rosse 4 1 IFOMIS, University of Saarbrücken, Germany; 2 Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo and National Center for Biomedical Ontology, USA; 3 European Centre for Ontological Research, University of Saarbrücken, Germany; 4 Department of Biological Structure, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. ABSTRACT Tumors, abscesses, cysts, scars, fractures are familiar types of what we shall call pathological continuant entities. The instances of such types exist always in or on anatomical structures, which thereby become transformed into pathological anatomical structures of corresponding types: a fractured tibia, a blistered thumb, a carcinomatous colon. In previous work on biomedical ontologies we showed how the provision of formal definitions for relations such as is_a, part_of and transformation_of can facilitate the integration of such ontologies in ways which have the potential to support new kinds of automated reasoning. We here extend this approach to the treatment of pathologies, focusing especially on those pathological continuant entities which arise when organs become affected by carcinomas. 1 BACKGROUND The Ontology of Biomedical Reality (OBR) [1] provides Table 1: A Part of the OBR Classification of Continuant Entities 1. material anatomical entity 1a. anatomical structure 1a(i) canonical anatomical structure 1a(ii) variant anatomical structure 1b. portion of canonical body substance (portion of urine, portion of blood) 2. material pathological entity 2a. pathological structure (neoplasm, inflammatory structure, degenerated structure) 2b. portion of pathological body substance (portion of pus, portion of amyloid) a preliminary classification of organismal continuant entities, shown partially in Table 1. Continuant entities are entities which endure selfidentically through time while undergoing a variety of different sorts of changes of size, shape, location, internal structure, and so forth [2]. The OBR classification * Corresponding author distinguishes two high-level universals in the realm of organismal continuants: material anatomical entity and material pathological entity, which are disjoint in the sense that they share no instances in reality. In accordance with the classification schemes presupposed in standard treatises of pathology, OBR conceives the universal material pathological entity as comprehending subtypes such as tumor, ulcer, portion of pus, which have no equivalents in normal, healthy organisms. In addition, however, we need to do justice to those anatomical structures which serve as the hosts or bearers of abnormalities of the types mentioned and which have as a consequence become predisposed to malfunction and disease. This means that in addition to universals such as colon carcinoma and empyema of the lung, which are instantiated by corresponding pathological lesions, we need to include also universals such as carcinomatous colon and empyematous lung, which are instantiated by those anatomical structures whose physiologic functions have been altered by those lesions. We thus modify the classification in [1] by recognizing two kinds of pathological continuant entity, which we shall call pathological formation and pathological anatomical structure, respectively. Instances of the latter serve as the bearers or hosts for instances of the former. As in the original classification, so also here, we take the non-pathological universals from the Foundational Model of Anatomy (FMA) [3,4] as our starting point. The FMA is a structured representation of the anatomy of instances (particulars, individuals), whose constituent nodes are representations of those multiply located anatomical entities (i.e., universals) that exist in the instances (particulars) that they subsume [4]. The universal anatomical structure is defined by the FMA as follows: An anatomical structure is a material physical anatomical entity which has inherent 3D shape and is generated by coordinated expression of the organism s own structural genes. The particular entities which satisfy this definition, and which are thus instances of the corresponding universal, include cells and organs, as well as cardinal body parts such as the head and trunk. For reasons outlined in [4], the FMA is restricted to 1

2 B. Smith, A. Kumar, W. Ceusters, C. Rosse anatomical entities which are typical in the sense that they can be conceived as belonging to an idealized, healthy male or female adult human being. (Such entities are identified in the literature of the FMA also as canonical entities.) But there are also typical entities in the realm of pathologies. The cases of small cell carcinoma of the lung and adenocarcinoma of the colon discussed in pathology textbooks are typical in the sense that they possess the characteristics by which entities of the given types may be most readily distinguished from other pathological formations. It is the task of pathology as an empirical science to specify the characteristics by which subtypes and modifications of these typical instances can be specified. An anatomical structure is pathological whenever: (1) it has come into being as a result of changes in some pre-existing canonical anatomical structure (2) through processes other than the expression of the normal complement of genes of an organism of the given type, and (3) is predisposed to have health-related consequences for the organism in question manifested by symptoms and signs. An organism (or part of an organism) is diseased if and only if (1) it includes among its parts pathological formations which (2) compromise the organism s physiological processes to the degree that they give rise to symptoms and signs. Symptoms and signs, too, would require a detailed ontological treatment, which we do not however attempt here. An organism (or part of an organism) is healthy if and only if it is not diseased. So long as a pathological continuant does not interfere with physiological processes we have pathology but no disease. A pathological continuant entity can thus exist even in a healthy organism. A single transformed epithelial cell need give rise to no health-related consequences, but it is a cancer in situ at the cell level nonetheless. In what follows, now, we stipulate that canonical and variant shall comprehend exclusively non-pathological instances of the corresponding anatomical universals. Pathological anatomical structures are thus distinguished from variant anatomical structures (such as middle lobe of left lung) by the fact that the latter are not predisposed to manifest health-related consequences. 2 VARIETIES OF PATHOLOGICAL CONTINUANT In the light of considerations in section 1 we enhance OBR by sorting pathological continuant entities into two ontologically disjoint categories of pathological formation and pathological anatomical structure, respectively. Following the scheme of OBR, we then distinguish in each category independent and dependent continuant entities. Independent continuant entities can be defined for present purposes as continuant entities which have mass (and are thus material); dependent continuant entities as continuant entities which do not have mass (and are thus immaterial) [1]. Tumors and abscesses are examples of independent pathological continuants, and so also are carcinomatous colons, wounded knees, punctured eardrums, fractured tibias. Examples of dependent pathological continuants are wounds, punctures, fractures and abscess cavities. The latter belong ontologically in the same family as boundaries and holes [5]. Indeed the relation between dependent and independent pathological continuants is formally analogous to the relation of boundarydependence defined in [6]. Independent pathological continuants can now be subdivided into: pathological formations, for example a carcinoma, a blister, an ulcer, which are newly formed continuant entities evolving in some larger anatomical structure; pathological anatomical structures, for example a carcinomatous lung, a blistered thumb, an ulcerated colon; portions of pathological body substance, for example a portion of pus, a portion of amyloid. It is upon the first two of these categories that we shall concentrate here. Our task is to understand the relations between such continuant universals as carcinomatous lung, lung and carcinoma. We must first, however, touch briefly on pathological occurrent entities. 3 VARIETIES OF PATHOLOGICAL OCCURRENT Like all organismal continuants, pathological continuant entities are tied in every case to occurrent entities (happenings, changes, events, processes), which unfold themselves through time in successive temporal phases [1,2]. As noted in [4], there are certain basic types of processes involving biological continuants which, in various combinations, bring about phenotypic changes on all levels of granularity. These are processes of neogenesis, deletion and spatial or structural rearrangement of constituents, the latter often manifested as processes of invasion. 2

3 On carcinomas and other pathological entities Often these processes entail specific sorts of changes in a single anatomical structure which preserves its identity over time. An instance of a given type of canonical anatomical structure at one stage may be identical to an instance of a pathological anatomical structure at some later stage. Following [7,8], we call such processes transformations; they are types of phenotypic change which are observed not only in the etiology of pathological continuants but also in embryonic development and in growth and aging. A colon remains a colon, indeed it remains one and the same colon, even when some of its parts have been transformed into a tumor of a size capable of obstructing its lumen and disrupting the ordered arrangement of layers in the colon wall. An epithelial cell of the colon in which a carcinogenic transformation has taken place is one and the same entity as the canonical (healthy) colon epithelial cell which existed earlier. In reflection of the existence of such transformations, the OBR classification has been revised (see Figure 1) in such a way as to include pathological anatomical structure as a subtype of anatomical structure. insert Figure 1 here from: Such transformations occur even in the case of congenital pathological continuants, where we can in every case identify embryonic or fetal canonical anatomical equivalents whose development into more mature forms has been arrested or interfered with as a consequence of the failure or disruption of developmental processes. Thus in the case of congenital neoplasms, the lung is formed in an embryo of 4 or 5 weeks of gestational age and it has existed before any of its cells become neoplastically transformed. Various types of congenital cardiac abnormality, similarly, correspond to embryonic or fetal canonical anatomical structures arrested at specific stages of cardiac development. A second sub-family of phenotypic changes consists of processes of derivation [7], where matter is reorganized in such a way as to give rise to new entities which take the place of entities existing earlier, as for example in cases of cell division or fusion. A process of neoplastic change may not alter the essential characteristics of the few epithelial cells it primarily affects (the cells retain their identity), but the tumor that results from the uncontrolled proliferation of these modified cells becomes a new entity in virtue of its phenotype. The tumor is derived from normal cells of the colon, but it is not a transformation of any pre-existing single entity. Here again, such processes of derivation occur even in the case of congenital pathological continuants. Spina bifida arises through disruption of neural and vertebral fusion processes. The pathological continuants that we observe postnatally are then derived from abnormal embryonic or fetal structures each of which in turn derives from a normal embryonic or fetal structure of an earlier developmental stage. 4 ELEMENTS OF A FORMAL THEORY Existing classifications of pathologies are contained for example in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) [9], SNOMED CT [10], the NCI Thesaurus [11], the Pathology Descriptive Terminology [12], and OBO s Disease Ontology [13]. Unfortunately none of these systems has the resources to support reasoning about pathologies in systematic ways. This is because none of them incorporates a formal-ontological framework with the facility to represent the different types of pathological and non-pathological continuant entities and the relations between them. In the classification summarized in Figure 1 the universal anatomical structure comprehends as subuniversals not merely canonical and variant anatomical structure but also pathological anatomical structure. Note that this is consistent with the definition of anatomical structure provided above. (We here leave out of account discussions of pathological surfaces, pathological states, and other non-material pathological continuant entities treated in [1] and also of biological pathologens such as bacteria and parasites, which are not parts of the organism in question. We also omit from the classification nonorganismal substances such as carcinogens, poisons, and irritants of various sorts.) Our classification can now be expanded through axioms asserting is_a and part_of relations between corresponding universals such as: canonical colonic epithelial cell is_a colonic epithelial cell pathological colonic epithelial cell is_a colonic epithelial cell pathological colonic epithelial cell is_a pathological anatomical structure tuberculous lobe of left lung is_a pathological anatomical structure canonical colonic epithelial cell is_a canonical structure pathological colonic epithelial cell part_of colonic epithelium By making use of information in the FMA we can then infer for example that: pathological colonic epithelial cell part_of colonic mucosa pathological colonic epithelial cell part_of colon wall 3

4 B. Smith, A. Kumar, W. Ceusters, C. Rosse and so on. pathological colonic epithelial cell part_of colon We use variables A, B, C... to range over universals (types) of continuants. We use a, b, c, c,... to range over the instances of such universals (particulars in reality such as you and me, your tibia or your pleural cavity), and t, t,... to range over instants of time. Following [7] is_a and part_of, as relations between continuant universals, can be defined as follows: A is_a B =def. for all c, t, if c instance_of A at t then c instance_of B at t. A part_of B =def. for all a, t, if a instance_of A at t then there is some b such that: b instance_of B at t and a part_of b at t. Part_of, here, is the instance-level part relation (which holds, for example, between this particular cell and this particular lung at this particular instant of time). This use of instance-level relations to define relations between universals, and also the all-some structure employed in the definition of part_of, are characteristic of almost all relations between universals of the sort treated by biomedical ontologies, though this fact is not always recognized consistently in such ontologies. Note that it follows from our definition of part_of that pathological colonic epithelial cell stands in the part_of relation not only to pathological colon but also to colon. Quantification over time in the above is designed to capture formally the temporal relations between instances of biological universals. Such relations have not been addressed in ontologies thus far, and even ontologies distinguishing successive stages of development of organisms or pathologies have not incorporated machinery for dealing directly with times [14]. The reference to times allows us to do justice to the fact that one and the same entity can instantiate different universals and gain and lose parts in the course of time. Note that this reference is perfectly generic, which means that the definitions provided can be applied by users even in the absence of specific time-indexed data. 5 THE GENESIS OF PATHOLOGICAL ENTITIES Each pathological formation which is a carcinoma of the left lung stands in the instance-level part_of relation to that pathological left lung which serves as its host. On the level of universals we have correspondingly: carcinoma of left lung part_of left lung, though not, of course, the reciprocal relation (left lung has_part carcinoma of left lung). The associated transformation_of relation is defined as follows [7]: A transformation_of B =def. for all t and all c, if c instance_of A at t, then there is an earlier time t at which c instance_of B, and is illustrated for example by: red blood cell transformation_of reticulocyte fetus transformation_of embryo colon epithelial cell transformation_of colon epithelial cell precursor. Relations of this sort are not recorded even in an otherwise relation-rich terminology resource such as the National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT), where for example no relations are asserted between the two classes abnormal cell and normal cell, not even that they have a common parent, cell [15]. Transformation relations are also absent in the SNOMED CT terminology [16]. A type of relation which we do find in SNOMED CT is that of location, which is there expressed for example in: lung cyst finding_site lung structure Better, however, would be to eliminate the epistemological connotations of finding_site by using a relation such as OBO s located_in [7]: A located_in B =def. for all a, t, if a instance_of A at t there is some b such that: b instance_of B at t and a located_in b at t. Here located_in is the location relation between instances obtaining for example between your brain and your cranial cavity at a given point of time. Significantly, located_in, the corresponding relation between universals, has the same all-some form which we encountered in the definitions of part_of and transformation_of above. This framework can now be used as a platform for reasoning with axioms governing ontological relations in the domains of pathologies provided by other systems. PathBase [17], for example, provides a subsumption hierarchy for pathological processes, to which are adjoined axioms pertaining to the corresponding pathological continuants, for example to the effect that: endoplastic reticulum defect is_a subcellular defect. This axiom can be used with the colon cell assertions above to generate implications such as: pathological colon epithelial cell with endoplastic reticulum defect is_a pathological colon epithelial cell with subcellular defect endoplastic reticulum defect located_in endoplastic reticulum and so on. 6 STRUCTURES, PATTERNS, PROCESSES AND STAGES The neoplastic processes involved in colon carcinoma are borne by an anatomical structure, the colon itself, as it is transformed over time. In their earlier stages these processes unfold themselves primarily in certain epithelial 4

5 On carcinomas and other pathological entities cells; in their later stages they will spread to the submucosa and muscle coats. Even as the latter become involved in and engulfed by the spreading cancer, however, they will remain unaffected as far as the nature of their cells is concerned, though the canonical arrangement of the components invaded by the cancer may be disrupted. An inflammation and hypertrophy of the synovial membrane of the knee joint, similarly, is a pathological process which is initially confined to the synovial membrane itself, but then gives rise to degeneration of intra- and periarticular structures, as happens for example in the case of rheumatoid arthritis. Such multi-stage processes are captured in current bio-ontologies, for example, via the distinction between acute, subacute and chronic stages. In a complete representation one would need to specify the kinds of patterns associated with each such stage, and also the kinds of processes which yield them. The processes with which we are dealing here are not processes of transformation but rather of invasion or infiltration, processes of a type which yield patterns of continuant entities related together in specific ways. Such patterns can be represented by means of compound terms such as: muscle layer of colon invaded-by colon carcinoma colon carcinoma of liver metastasis-of carcinoma of sigmoid colon and so on [18]. (Here hyphens (-) are used in place of underscore separators ( _ ) to mark the fact that we are dealing with names (of complex universals) rather than with assertions (of relations).) The instances of complex universals of the mentioned sorts are themselves complex continuant entities. We find in all anatomy-based classification of carcinomas the generation of such complex names by means of syntactic operators of a type which have been recently investigated in relation to their use in the Gene Ontology [19,20,21]. Some binary operators of this type have been used already in the above, for example the operator with in: pathological colon epithelial cell with subcellular defect. As is shown in [22], however, such operators have to be used with caution. The SNOMED term empyema of the gallbladder without mention of calculus refers not to a special sort of empyema, but rather to a case of empyema that has been entered in a record in a certain way. Terms such as these can give rise to errors in reasoning [20]. Moreover, because classifications developed with their aid must fall short of the ideal of single inheritance (in which every node has at most one is_a parent), these classifications themselves are subject to the characteristic kinds of errors which flow from is_a overloading [23]. 7 CANCER STAGING The framework sketched above can be exploited to capture in a formal way some of the information contained in systems for cancer staging such as the TNM (for: Tumour, Node, Metastasis) system, systems which do not as currently constituted sustain formal reasoning [24]. Here T refers to information about size and location pertaining to a primary tumour; N records whether the cancer has metastasized to regional lymph nodes that drain fluid from the area of the tumour, and M stands for metastasis, and indicates whether the cancer has metastasized to distant sites in the body, for example from the colon to the liver. A stage is conceived by the TNM system as a portion of the life or history of an entity during which specific characteristics remain relatively constant. More correctly, however, it should be conceived as the pattern which endures at a certain level of granularity throughout the corresponding period, a pattern which can be captured formally by means of compound terms ( muscle layer of colon invaded-by colon carcinoma ) capturing parthood, location and other relations between continuant entities along the lines indicated above. The successive T stages of colorectal carcinoma are defined in the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual [24] as follows: Tis: Carcinoma in situ T1: Tumor invades submucosa T2: Tumor invades muscularis propria T3: Tumor invades through the muscularis propria into the subserosa, or into nonperitonealized pericolic or perirectal tissues T4: Tumor directly invades other organs or structures, and/or perforates visceral peritoneum Tis designates that stage during which cancer cells are confined to the luminal side of the epithelial basement membrane (intraepithelial) or the lamina propria (intramucosal), with no extension through the muscularis mucosae into the submucosa, the latter pattern being captured by the compound expression: colon submucosa invaded-by colon carcinoma. T2 designates a stage in the unfolding of the carcinoma process during which the carcinoma has invaded the muscular layers of the colon wall. N1 is a stage in which cancer has metastasized to one to four lymph nodes. M1 a stage where a metastasis is present in a part of the body not directly connected to the colon. We can now assert, for example, that a pathological entity of the type 5

6 B. Smith, A. Kumar, W. Ceusters, C. Rosse stage T2N1M1 colon carcinoma must be a transformation of either a T1N1M1 or a T2N0M1 carcinoma. We can infer further that, if a carcinoma is a transformation from T1N1M1 to T2N1M1, then a pattern of the type: muscularis mucosae invaded-by colon carcinoma has become instantiated. If there is a transformation from T2N0M1 to T2N1M1 then the last process to take place before this transformation was of the type lymph node involvement. If there is a transformation from T2N1M0 to T2N1M1, then the last process to take place was of the type metastasis to distant site. And so on. 8 CLASSIFYING CARCINOMAS THROUGH THE FMA To create a robust classification of carcinomas we need to find ways of linking the nodes of an ontology of pathological continuant entities with appropriate nodes in the FMA and in reference ontologies of attributes, of diseases, of molecular biology, and so forth. The corresponding relations will be either synchronic (is_a, part_of, located_at, etc.) or diachronic (derived_from, transformation_of ). The FMA, as already noted, does not take account of pathological continuant entities within its hierarchy of anatomical universals. On the basis of axioms of the sorts presented above, however, we can use the FMA as a valuable resource to support reasoning about carcinomas. The goal is to realize a scenario in which each given type of (for example) Tis small cell carcinoma would be represented as a node in a reference ontology of pathological continuant entities and linked via the located_at relation to the FMA and to a cancer staging knowledge base in a way which would allow us to infer, for example, that the carcinoma in question is located in the mucosa of a respiratory bronchiole in the lateral basal segment of the left lung. Compound expressions such as carcinomatous mucosa of a respiratory bronchiole in the lateral basal segment of the left lung should not then be used to refer to universals in a pre-existing reference ontology. Rather, they should be generated on the fly to meet the specific needs of the reasoner in specific types of contexts. If we generate a strictly location-based classification of carcinomas, via pointers going from the FMA to a pathology reference ontology, then the classification thereby generated would have the advantage that it would be more complete than a post-coordinated ontology of the type that is currently available in terminologies and ontologies such as SNOMED CT or the NCI Thesaurus, as it will necessarily take care in automatic fashion even of rare carcinomas. Thus the universal carcinoma of wall of alveolar duct has instances in physical reality, but they are encountered too infrequently to be included in the usual disease ontologies. Unfortunately, however, it would be too daunting a task to generate a new ontology reflecting all the different ways in which anatomical continuants may become tainted by the presence of pathological continuants of different sorts. For such an ontology would need to duplicate essentially the entire FMA for every kind of pathology universal, thus not only for cancerous colon and carcinomatous colon, but also for sarcomatous colon, inflamed colon, acutely inflamed colon, chronically inflamed colon, atrophied colon, hypertrophied colon, colon containing parasite, colon containing parasite of type A, colon containing parasite of type B, and so on. We should not, therefore, strive to create a reference ontology along all the axes that prevail in current terminologies, but rather build a reference ontology of types of pathologies which can be used together with the FMA and other domain reference ontologies to generate local classifications according to specific needs. This would bring also the advantage that we can preserve the benefits of single inheritance in reference ontologies, even if we need to accept multiple inheritance in classifications created for specific purposes. 9 REASONING WITH THE FMA Given a classification of types of carcinomas based on the anatomical ontology of the FMA along the lines described, we could use the is_a and part_of relations present in the FMA to derive relations between the corresponding carcinoma structures on the basis of rules such as: from: A is_a B (in FMA) infer: carcinoma of A is_a carcinoma of B yielding for example: carcinoma of lung is_a carcinoma of organ. Of course we also have: carcinoma of lung is_a carcinoma of anatomical entity, and while the latter assertion captures no knowledge which is of immediate clinical significance, it may be of importance in ensuring completeness of the set of inferences we can make in a reasoning system. We also have the rule: from: A part_of B (in FMA) infer: carcinoma of A is_a carcinoma of B. Thus from: ascending colon part_of colon 6

7 On carcinomas and other pathological entities we can infer: And from we can infer: ascending colon carcinoma is_a colon carcinoma upper lobe of left lung part_of left lung carcinoma of upper lobe of left lung is_a lung carcinoma A special issue arises where we employ anatomical expressions containing modifiers like whole or complete. The part_of components of the organ left lung include upper lobe of left lung and lower lobe of left lung. These form an exhaustive partition, so that the mereological sum of the two organ components is the whole left lung. While within the FMA whole left lung and left lung are treated as synonyms, for purposes of the classification of disorders the two expressions need to be distinguished [25]. This is because we have for example: upper lobe of left lung part_of whole left lung lower lobe of left lung part_of whole left lung carcinoma of upper lobe of left lung is_a carcinoma of left lung but not: carcinoma of upper lobe of left lung is_a carcinoma of whole left lung. 10 CONCLUSION We have sketched a formal approach to the ontology of pathological continuant entities resting on the distinction between two types of pathological continuant entity, called pathological formations, and pathological anatomical structures, respectively. The framework is intended to support new types of reasoning about pathological entities and about the ways in which they develop through time, for example in the domain of cancer staging. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This paper was written under the auspices of the Wolfgang Paul Program of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the European Union Network of Excellence on Medical Informatics and Semantic Data Mining, the Volkswagen Foundation under the auspices of the project Forms of Life, and the National Center for Biomedical Ontology. REFERENCES 1 Rosse C, Kumar A, Mejino JLV, Cook DL, Detwiler LT, Smith B. A strategy for improving and integrating biomedical ontologies. Proc AMIA Symp 2005, Washington DC, in press. 2 Grenon P, Smith B, Goldberg L. Biodynamic ontology: Applying BFO in the biomedical domain. In: Pisanelli DM (ed.), Ontologies in Medicine, Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004, Rosse C, Mejino JLV Jr: A reference ontology for bioinformatics: The Foundational Model of Anatomy. J Biomed Informatics, 2003; 36: Casati R, Varzi A. Holes and other superficialities, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, Smith B. On substances, accidents and universals. In defence of a constituent ontology. Philosophical Papers, 1997;27: Smith B, Ceusters W, Klagges BER, Kohler J, Kumar A, Lomax J, Mungall CJ, Neuhaus F, Rector AL, Rosse C. Relations in Biomedical Ontologies. Genome Biology, 2005;6:R Aitken S: Formalising concepts of species, sex and developmental stage in anatomical ontologies, Bioinformatics, in press. 15 Ceusters W, Smith B, Goldberg L: A terminological and ontological analysis of the NCI Thesaurus, Methods of Information in Medicine, in press Johansson I. Pattern as an ontological category, FOIS 1998 (Formal Ontology in Information Systems), 1998; : Ogren PV, Cohen KB, Acquaah-Mensah GK, Eberlein J, Hunter L. The compositional structure of Gene Ontology terms. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2004;9: Kumar A, Smith B, Borgelt C. Dependence relationships between Gene Ontology terms based on TIGR gene product annotations. Prof CompuTerm 2004 (Workshop on Computational Terminology). 2004;: Mungall C: OBOL: integrating language and meaning in bioontologies. Comp Funct Genomics 2004, 5: Bodenreider O, Smith B, Burgun A. The ontologyepistemology divide: A case study in medical terminology, Proc FOIS 2004 (Formal Ontology and Information Systems). Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004;: Kumar A, Smith B. Oncology Ontology in the NCI Thesaurus, AIME 2005 (Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Europe), forthcoming. 7

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